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Here are your next
season's
evening frocks
Paris.
We have just sat through seven collections--two hundred models in each. Looking back on the four teen-hour procession of Fashion, I remember the highlights.
feathers; gowns copied from Velas- guez portraits; lovely headresses.
Nearly every Worth dress has a train. He shows the pleated fan tail train. One of his most beauti- ful black.jersey dinner gowns floats The 1914 'silhouette. The jackets away peacock-wise below the hipline trimmed with sequins and ̈ beads" at the back of the skirt.
and jewelled stones. The honed Many of his evening gowns have corset bodices on Chanel's evening muffs. I remember one made of frocks.
velvet leaves trimmed with bunches
Worth's stock necklines, and his of violets. It was made for a cycla- new silvery yellow-the colour of men pink and amethyst dress. hock. The Victoria Regina dresses by Lucien Lelong.
Bruyere's quilted suits and coats his knee breeches under the skirt. Lucille Paray's cocktail suits in metal lame.
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Marchal Rochas makes magic with colours. He puts dull purple with lime green and citron yellow. He uses rich turquoise with beaver brown and adds some pinkish violet to make a grand harmony.
soft
The Rochas colours look as though they are floodlit from behind. The The evening gowns are the heart women who wear them will have and it's a flattering
of every collection.
let themselves go. themes stand out.
The designers a glow.
Three major thing to have.
The crinoline; I liked his slick little evening the 1914 tunic over a alim long suits. The jackets are strictly skirt; the Greek: draped classic. tailored in lame or velvet. The Every designer has his own ideas skirts are knife pleated and quite about them.
The harem skirt comes back to suit the prewar evening frock. Bruyere does it in raspberry pink jersey. The skirt "trousers" front-the neckline is high Turkish-the sleeves are full banded at the wrists with jewelled cuffs.
short.
You could go anywhere in રી Rochas suit except to a ball.
We chose his tunic dress to sketch in because it is one of the most be- and coming versions of the 1914 sil- and houette. The tunic is brocaded pea- wide cock green lame; the skirt velvet.
Lelong is faithful to lace. He He put wimples on his medieval excels at the charming youthful gowns. I liked one in black sequins dress which begins with simple glittering on black velvet. with bodice and ends with wide sweeping a girdle of sequins set low on the skirt. hipline. Sketch-top right.
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I like to remember that.
A lace blouse and a velvet skirt is right for any date after 'dark...
Evening cloaks have big loose hoods.
Bruyere whose theme colour is like old rubbed copper-uses copper lame for a long evening coat. It has the Watteau panelled back which
I can wear a bustle if I want to.- is going to please every woman who cannot live up to a cape, but
For skirts I have a choice of wants to be dramatic all the same. gathers, flares, drapery before and At Worth I got the impression behind, peacock trains or knee-high of elegance and luxury. Velvet; slashings.
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